Gendering the state in the age of globalization : women's movements and state feminism in postindustrial democracies /

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Gendering the State is a ground-breaking collection of studies that examines the efforts of women in countries all over the world to frame public policy debates on nationally critical issues in gendered terms. The overall study is grouped into three distinct patterns of state change: state downsizin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haussman, Melissa, 1959-, Sauer, Birgit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
Temas:
Feminist theory > Political aspects.
Feminism > Cross-cultural studies.
Social policy > Cross-cultural studies.
Sex role > Political aspects.
Théorie féministe > Aspect politique.
Féminisme > Études transculturelles.
Politique sociale > Études transculturelles.
Rôle selon le sexe > Aspect politique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Feminism
Feminist theory > Political aspects
Sex role > Political aspects
Social policy
Feminismus
Frauenbewegung
Nachindustrielle Gesellschaft
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Women's movements and state restructuring in the 1990s / Melissa Haussman and Birgit Sauer
  • Re-evaluating the "heart of society" : family policy in Austria / Birgit Sauer
  • Feminism and indigenous rights in Australia in the 1990s / Barbara Sullivan
  • Speedy Belgians : the new Nationality Law of 2000 and the impact of the women's movement / Alison E. Woodward
  • New federalism and cracked pillars : the Canadian health insurance system under the 2000 Romanow Commission and beyond / Melissa Haussman
  • Debating day care in Finland in the midst of an economic recession and welfare state down-sizing / Terhi Aalto and Anne Maria Holli
  • Thirty-five hour workweek reforms in France, 1997-2000 : strong feminist demands, elite apathy, and disappointing outcomes / Amy G. Mazur
  • Women, embryos, and the good society : gendering the bioethics debate in Germany / Kathrin Braun
  • The reform of the state in Italy / Marila Guadagnini
  • Electoral reform in mid-1990s Japan / Misako Iwamoto
  • The "home care gap" : neoliberalism, feminism, and the state in the Netherlands / Jantine Oldersma and Joyce Outshoorn
  • The women's movement, state feminism, and unemployment reform in Spain, 2002-2003 / Celia Valiente
  • The debate about care allowance in the light of welfare state reconfiguration / Christina Bergqvist
  • The UK : reforming the House of Lords / Joni Lovenduski
  • Welfare reform : America's hot issue / Dorothy E. McBride
  • Conclusions : State feminism and state restructuring since the 1990s / Birgit Sauer, Melissa Haussman, and Dorothy E. McBride.

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